Akmal Dawi VOA News June 20, 2023 WASHINGTON — Amid unresolved wrangling with Taliban authorities over women’s right to work and education and a decline in donor funding, the United Nations has cut its humanitarian aid request for Afghanistan by more than $1 billion, forcing aid agencies to stop giving critical assistance to millions of people.
Khaama: The UN Children’s agency, UNICEF, said it was discussing with Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan “timelines and practicalities” for a possible required handover of its education programs and that classes would continue. Aid officials said that the Taliban had made it clear that outside organizations could no longer be involved in education programmes, a move denounced by
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 11, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Taliban leaders in Afghanistan pushed back Sunday against a new United Nations assessment that they face internal power struggles and maintain a strong link with international terrorist groups. In a statement, chief Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denounced as baseless and “full of prejudice” the report that the
Tolo News: According to the report, the threat of terrorism is rising in both Afghanistan and the region, and “there are indications that al-Qaida is rebuilding operational capability.” “The Taliban, in power as the de facto authorities in Afghanistan under Hibatullah Akhundzada, have reverted to the exclusionary, Pashtun-centred, autocratic policies of the Taliban administration of
By Mansoor Khosrow Fayeza Ibrahimi Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 8, 2023 Ghulam Haider has depended on food and cash handouts from international aid agencies in order to survive. He is among the millions of people who have received lifesaving aid in Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 worsened a devastating humanitarian crisis
Margaret Besheer VOA News May 18, 2023 NEW YORK — The U.N. children’s agency representative in Afghanistan says his agency, including its female Afghan staff, continue to work in the country despite a Taliban decree banning local women from working for the organization. “I would say that all women of the U.N. in Afghanistan are working,”
Khaama: International media has reported the United Nations agencies including UNICEF, World Health Organization and WFP have failed to protect the rights of their female Afghan employees under the Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The London-based news agency Tortoise Media has recently highlighted in one of its reports titled “UN betrays women in Afghanistan” that the
Lisa Schlein VOA News May 14, 2023 GENEVA — Growing risks of a potentially large Moroccan locust outbreak sweeping across northern Afghanistan’s eight provinces, the country’s wheat basket, will have devastating consequences for millions of Afghan people already suffering from acute hunger if not controlled, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. “It is a
Khaama: The U.N. has accused the de facto authorities of detaining, harassing, and imposing “severe” restrictions on the movements of its female employees working with the Agency in the country. “This is the most recent in a series of discriminatory – and unlawful – measures implemented by the de facto authorities to severely restrict women
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 5, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A weeklong special U.N. mission on human rights in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has found an unprecedented level of “systemic gender-based” discrimination that severely threatens the impoverished country’s future. The United Nations released preliminary findings of the two-member mission Friday, saying the study concluded Thursday and took place amid